I know I did one post and then abandoned this blog...oops, story of my life. I guess i've been focused on it being a blog to post my photos; however, I struggled with not having it be just that either. So instead of over analizing everything i'm just going to do whatever:-)!
Through God's eyes I am just who I need to be and so much more, to His eyes I am beautiful and worth every bit of the struggles i've put Him through. Through God's eyes I am precious. But when I look in the mirror do I see that? No, not the way I should. There are too many girls out there that don't believe this about themselves which doesn't surprise me based on how I feel, but at the same time extremely disheartening. If a girl came to me feeling this way I would only preach truth into her heart and pray that she recieves it right there.
How much time do you spend in the morning thinking about how others will perceive you based on what you look like each day? How could you spend some of that time contemplating your worth in God's eyes? By walking up to that mirror each day and realizing or just knowing how precious you are to Him. He cherishes us as a precious creation and I believe in the bible the apostle Paul explains it this way:
Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready. He presented Himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put His love on the line for us by offering His son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to Him. (Rom. 5:6-8)
I've struggled with perfection with what seems like my whole life and it's been a constant issue i've had to confront in so many different ways. When you are a perfectionist you tend either to push yourself all the time to be better or to go into failure mode and give up, believing that you'll never succeed. My tendency was to live with a sense that God was disappointed in me-that I was not good enough. God has assured me countless number of times that I am secure and loved by Him.
Because there are so many of us out there that spend much of our time trying to please others, we are uncomfortable in our own skin and don't know who we are. Unfortunately, we are deriving our sense of worth from what we do or don't do for others. It's all based on false and conditional love. We can get so wrapped up in this that we can't see beyond it to see our worth in God- who we are in Him.
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